Posted on 05/18/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
HISTORY® premieres "Roots" on Memorial Day 2016, airing over four consecutive nights at 9 p.m. beginning Monday, May 30, it was announced today by Paul Buccieri, President of A&E and HISTORY. The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.
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No thanks. I saw the original, the Next Generation series, and the Queen series, probably more than once. Enough is enough.
Ok, slavery was bad, I get it.
Enough is enough......
The original series was very well done. Even for its time, it still holds up. There is no reason to reinvent something that was already well done. Hollyweird has a strange idea that we need to reboot everything that has already been done.
Pure laziness.
Was there not a time when this story was exposed as “made up”?
Roots - Now With More Whuppins and Cryins to show how bad dat Evil White Man really be!
I was a slave from an early age and trust me, my folks didn’t pay me much. Then it was my uncle Sam, who also didn’t pay me much either. Since then it has been an assortment of employers and finally I make some decent money, but trust me, I worked for every dime I ever made and so could and should every black since slavery was stamped out.
Yep we know the story. Kunte Kinte and all that. He was beaten until he said his name was Toby. They trace their family line up to Alex Haley. They traced their family history farther back than most of us can. They survived slavery and Jim Crow and the family lived on. We get it.
I have no plans to watch it. Saw the original but don’t want to revisit it.
Also, lack or originality and creativity. Today in Hollywood, a "good idea" is figuring our what to remake next.
History Channel?
No. That’s been disproved. Repeatedly.
Nah, pure lack of talent.
I wonder if Kunta Kenti will be captured by the evil white slave hunters again this time around, or if they will tell it like it was and have him captured by the Islamic slave hunters?
In the new version:
“Ay, yo, n@gger, bale this cotton!”
“S___ my d___, Massa!”
(Credit to Eddie Murphy)
Yes. Haley stole the story from a WHITE GUY who documented it years before. Haley settled and “Roots” was quietly removed from the History section to the Fiction section.
Holy snikes!
It just hit me.
“Reimagined” on the “History Channel”.
WTF?!
Pure how the industry has always run. Really remakes have been the bread and butter of Hollywood since it was in NYC.
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